St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-20
HAS TOO MANY WIVES.
The Story Told by the Girlish
Wife of Dr.. j. P. Cox, Hay
ward, Wis.
1t Was a Regular Divorce Day
in Judge Wilkins Court
Yesterday.
Suits Brought Against the
Burlington Road on Ae-
count of a Smashup.
An Attorney Scores the Trus-
tees Of DR.. Vests Former
ChuPch--Coupt Notes,

Judge Simons listened YEARLY to ar
guments in several dry civil cases yes
terday. and endeayOred nightly to keep
track of points of respective counsel in
garniShment and assignment matters
until after O'clock. At the last minute
the spicy divorce case of Mary c. Cox.
of this city, against the very celebrated
Dr..J0Seph I. COX.Of Hayward. Wis. came
up. Mrs. Cox is a rather girlish-lOOking
woman. whose features, however, have
become intieXible, and the expression
of her blue eyes is more stern than one
is accustomed to meet with in the faces
Of sweet women. and these two pecu-
Harities denote that she is not to be
tritled with if she knows it. Her brown
treSSeS were SmOthered beneath
seal skin cap. and a seal cloak
was buttOned tightly around a faded
cadet-blue silk dress. She said that she
now lives on University avenue, in this
city. while her husband resides in Hay
ward. Wis. and delights in the COM
paDy of another wife. They were mar
ried in June, 1856, and when DIR. Cox
got good and ready to 60 he went, and
it was last May when Wife No. l went
TO Hayward after him. and learned that
"When he heard had come for him.
said Mrs. Cox, he lit out" A resident
of Hayward. named DUcan, was put
upon the stand, and. beneath his spec
tacleS, testified that he had personal as
SUTance that the doctor was living in
Hayward with Mrs. Cox,
whose maiden name was Nina Towns
bend, and he said the doctor told him
he was married to that woman last Jan
uary. Then Ella Stanley, an inmate of
a Cedar street house, "chippie" sort
OF a girl. with her auburn hair cut short
and her dr6sS abbreviated enough to eX-
pose her pretty ankles, tripped lightly
up to the chair and testified that DR..
Cox had visited house of i'll repute on
Hill street last July. There was no
young and handsome DR.. Cox present,
so. after few cTOss-cutS between Judge
SimOnS and Mrs. COX'S attorney, Tom
Ryan, relative to the prOpriety of allow
ing Mrs. Cox TO give hearSay evidence
as to what Mrs. Cox No. 2 had told her,
the court took the matter under advise
ment.
FOR DRUNKENNESS.
The ease of Mary Chaplin against
Clarence f. Chaplin was also tried, no
defendant appearing. Mrs Chaplin was
a meek-faced young woman, very
lItblA. MtIlll1S ii Mllllt SILK NGll, anu
envelOped within a fur-lined circular.
She applied for divorce on the ground
of habitual drunkenness. Her young
husband. she said. was 4 railway clerk,
working for a good salary in one of the
auditors departments Of the general
Office here. but soon after the wedding
day he took to drink, and kept on TAX
ing to drink. so that it was sometimes
necessary for Mrs. Chaplin to assist him
10 walk: and he sometimes carried a
bottle. Mrs. Chaplin had to go out and
get her own living. They separated
last September. She said her husband
had lost several good positions on ac
count of his weakness for intOXicants.
There was plenty of female evidence to
cOTrObOrate her story.
Joseph Rummell has begun a suit for
divorce against his frau, Paulina. He
alleges that they We're married at
Wiesensterg, Wurtemburg, Germany,
June 30. 1879. and that Paulina left him
in August, 1884, while they were living
in the same place. Two little children
are the fruits of their marriage, one of
whom was born when Mrs. Rummell
had deserted her husband. He wants
the custody of the children.
OTHER UNHAPPY COUPLES.
In the case of John Fuchs against
ROSina Fuchs the court allowed defend
dant s. per week pending the action,
and S25 attorneys fees.
The action of Mary Hogan against
James Hogan was stricken off the cal
endar.
Julia Small and Jesse Small were
married at jefferson. Ind, in 1879. She
has now secured a divorce because he
deSertedher in 1854.
4 divorce for deSertiOn is asked for by
Catherine Powers, an old lady of sev-
whose age is given as siXty-five. They
were married here in 1857. anu in 1877.
after twenty years of married life, her
husband deserted her. so Mrs. Powers
alleges, and she hasn't seen him since.